NYC police shoot, kill man they say ran at them with knife
Police shot and killed a man they said charged at officers with a knife on a Brooklyn street after they told him to drop it and used stun guns on him.
Police haven’t yet been able to identify the man, and it’s unclear whether there were any witnesses to the confrontation around 4:15 a.m. Monday on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Police said the encounter was captured on officers’ body cameras; no video has been released yet.
Assistant Chief Michael Kemper said the information gathered so far shows police got a call about a man with a knife and a gun — no gun was ultimately found — and found him with the roughly 7-inch-long knife in one hand and the other in a coat pocket.